Syllabus for the Post of Junior Employment Officer | JKSSB

Government of Jammu and Kashmir
Services Selection Board
Sehkari Bhawan Rail Head Complex, Jammu

1. It is for the information of all the candidates who have applied for the posts advertised vide Advertisement Notification No 05 of 2017, that the items /syllabi are as such being annexed herewith.
2. The candidates are also intimated that there shall be negative marking for wrong answers (-0.25 for each wrong answer) attempted in the said examination.
3. This advance notice is for the purpose of intimation to the concerned candidates only.

Post:- Junior Employment Officer
Multiple Choice Based Written test
Reference Guidelines and Syllabus
120 Marks/120 Minutes

GENERAL ENGLISH (24 Marks)

• Tenses
• Rearranging of jumbled sentences.
• Narration
• Models
• Articles
• Comprehension with blanks to be filled in with
• Phrases, Pronouns, Homonyms / homophones.
• Clauses
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Pairs of words and their use in meaningful sentences.
• Idioms and phrases.
• Uses of Prepositions.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO J&K (24 Marks)

• Abbrevations, Important dates, popular names of personalities and their achievements/Contribution (National and International).
• Constitution of J&K – Formation, Fundamental rights, Directive Principles.
• Weather, Climate, Crops, Means of Transport.
• Important power projects and their impact on State Economy.
• Rivers and Lakes.
• Important Tourist Destinations.
• History of J&K State.
• Historical places of the State and their importance.
• RTI Act.
• Indus Water Treaty and its impact on State economy.

Statistical Methods (24 Marks)

• Classification and Tabulation of Data
• Measures of central Tendency and Dispersion their relative merits and demerits.
• Theory of Probability
• Elementary Knowledge of Theoretical Distributions (Binomial, Poisson and Normal).
• Correlation and regression- Concept and definition and simple applications.
• Theory of Attributes- Basic concepts and their applications,
• Co-efficient and Association and Coefficient of Contingency.
• Hypothesis Testing- Chi Square Test & T-Test.

Principles of Business Management (24 Marks)

• Nature Scope and Significance of Management and Administration. The modern concept of Management.
• The process of Management
• Process of Control: Production Planning & Control, Quality Control, Inventory Control, Budgetary Control and Cost Control. PERT, CPM and GNATT Charts.
• Personnel Management : Definition, meaning and Scope, Performance appraisal, Evaluation and Monitoring, Human Resource Planning.
• Marketing Management : Definition, Meaning and Scope, Marketing Environment in India, Consumer Behavior, Marketing Strategies, Challenges of Marketing In India, Social Responsibilities & Marketing Ethics.
• Financial Management : Definition, meaning and Scope, , Financial Statement Analysis:, Income & Expenditure Statement, Profit & Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Ratio Analysis, Working Capital Analysis, Fund Flow Statement, Cash Flow Statement, Capital Budgeting/Financial Leverage, Price level Accounting, Cost of Capital & Capital Structure , Issue of Shares & Debentures, Dividend Policy, Bonus , Share Markets: Primary &
  Secondary, Inventory & Receivable Management, Budgeting & Budgetary Control, Standard costing & Cost Sheets, Marginal Costing and Break Even Analysis, Differential Cost Analysis.
• Income Tax : Calculation of Income Tax-Salary
• Public Finance: Nature Scope and Importance of Public Finance.
• Registration of Companies- Memorandum of Associations, Articles of Associations, Mergers, Acquisition, Diversification, Expansion.
• Zero Based Budgeting & Performance Budgeting.
• Indian Financial System.

General Economics (24 Marks)

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• Meaning, Scope and Methodology,
• Theory of consumers demand using indifference curve technique.
• Consumer Surplus-Basic concept & measurement.
• Theory of distribution:- Marginal productivity Theory, Ricardian Theory of Rent, Kenysian Theory of Interest.
• Pricing under various forms of Market.
• Theory of production:- Returns to Scale & Returns to Factor
• Factors of production& Production functions.
• Concept of Economic Growth and its measurement
• Characteristics and problems of developing economy- Demography and economic development.
• Rationale of Planning in Developing Countries.
• Poverty Concepts & Measurement.
• Unemployment- Concept & Measurement.
• Objectives & Strategies of Indian Planning.
• Problems of resource mobilization- Successes & Failures.
• Decentralization & Role of PRIs.
• Planning for Inclusive Growth & Development Schemes.
• Fiscal and Monetary Policy.
• Inflation & Deflation.
• Concepts of National Income.
• RBI and Developmental Banks.
• SEBI, Foreign Trade, Balance of Payments
• Deficit Financing.